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https://lemmy.liebeleu.de/u/MatSeFi posted on Feb 19, 2026 09:44
In reply to: https://lemmy.zip/post/59161599

All these speeds the providers advertise (especially the faster ones) are often cut down by bad peering. I often had an issue downloading bigger files from my storage when I was traveling. Only got some single digit MBit transfer speeds due to bad peering, while speed tests has shown decent results. When it comes down to Selfhosting the upload/download figures alone not always tell the truth. In my point of view 20Mbps is actually even sufficient for most of private stuff, even streaming HD content to one ore two peers simultaneously.

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https://lemmy.ml/u/tvcvt posted on Feb 19, 2026 01:01
In reply to: https://piefed.social/comment/10162498

I hear you and I’m all for diving in—breaking things is half the fun.

If you’re after something straightforward for NAS software, another thing to consider would be vanilla Debian with Cockpit and 45Drives’ excellent filesharing plug in. I like the combo quite a bit.

Enjoy the journey!

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https://lemmy.world/u/antimongo posted on Feb 19, 2026 00:59
In reply to: https://sh.itjust.works/comment/23826725

Also using Booklore with 2 Kobos, works great!

Although annotation syncing isn’t supported yet, I believe there’s a pull request for it already.

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https://piefed.social/u/Limerance posted on Feb 18, 2026 21:52
In reply to: https://lemmy.sdf.org/comment/26040631

All valid points. It is still popular.

toxic kingdoms

Exist here too.

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https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/u/orsetto posted on Feb 18, 2026 15:33
In reply to: https://lemmy.world/comment/22195466

Do you have an estimate on the energy consumption?

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https://thelemmy.club/u/Evil_Shrubbery posted on Feb 18, 2026 19:19
In reply to: https://lemmy.world/comment/22212119

Oh, so the spec is fairly correct at 97W idle.
And being an old, slow CPU means it’s not efficient at load either (higher peak consumption & longer precising time needed).

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https://lemmy.world/u/irmadlad posted on Feb 18, 2026 20:02
In reply to: https://lemmy.world/comment/22214683

cool

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https://leminal.space/u/probable_possum posted on Feb 18, 2026 12:54
In reply to: https://piefed.social/c/selfhosted/p/1786114/a-newbie-s-guide-to-self-hosting-with-yunohost-part-4-backups

I don’t get the resentment. In the end it is a hobby. You can have fun building everything from scratch. And you can have fun, using pre configured services.

What counts is that you get away from big corp.

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https://lemmy.decronym.xyz/u/Decronym posted on Feb 18, 2026 19:21
In reply to: https://piefed.social/c/selfhosted/p/1786114/a-newbie-s-guide-to-self-hosting-with-yunohost-part-4-backups

Acronyms, initialisms, abbreviations, contractions, and other phrases which expand to something larger, that I’ve seen in this thread:

Fewer Letters More Letters
DNS Domain Name Service/System
FAA Federal Aviation Administration
IP Internet Protocol
SSL Secure Sockets Layer, for transparent encryption
VPS Virtual Private Server (opposed to shared hosting)

[Thread #103 for this comm, first seen 18th Feb 2026, 19:21] [FAQ] [Full list] [Contact] [Source code]

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https://lemmy.world/u/early_riser posted on Feb 18, 2026 13:06
In reply to: https://sh.itjust.works/comment/23815827

I think you could take this arbitrarily far. Why buy a motherboard when building a computer when you should design the PCB yourself? Why go with a pre-existing processor? You should design the architecture from scratch. Why aren’t you mining your own silicon and growing your own ingots? You’re not a real nerd unless you have your own chip fab.

Some people get into self hosting because they want their data to be their data. They don’t care about the particulars, they just want that peace of mind. Others get into it because they’re already in a tech or tech-adjacent field and want to improve their skills. Some, such as myself, fall somewhere in the middle. I work in IT and am sometimes in the mood to tinker, but sometimes I just want it to work without much fuss.

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https://sh.itjust.works/u/atzanteol posted on Feb 18, 2026 15:38
In reply to: https://lemmy.world/comment/22208073

Some people get into self hosting because they want their data to be their data. They don’t care about the particulars, they just want that peace of mind.

These people are the worst. What they want is fine - but the idea that you don’t need to worry about the particulars is ridiculous.

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https://lemmy.world/u/fafferlicious posted on Feb 18, 2026 19:15
In reply to: https://sh.itjust.works/comment/23815827

As someone who has never done any serious coding work or collaboration, hadn’t touched Linux in 18+ years and am really only fluent in windows and Mac, and with limited time to get up to speed, I fucking love opinionated guides.

Tell me exactly what to do to get it up and running. Let me learn along the way, but don’t expect me to be able to read and understand the pros and cons of lets encrypt vs other solutions.

I simply do not have the requisite base knowledge to make informed decisions on this.

If you wanna leave it up to me how to do a golden gate assembly, quick change reaction, or a gibsok assembly, I can handle that.

Understanding the nuance of docker networking, reverse DNS,maintaining SSL, and just generally how to make it so I can use a hostname and not an IP address to access my services locally is something I want to learn. Eventually.

It’s not that your critiques of guides are invalid, but they may just not be structured for general learning.

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https://sh.itjust.works/u/CmdrShepard49 posted on Feb 18, 2026 05:52
In reply to: https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/63935079

I’d definitely skip this in favor of something consumer-grade. You can find used Dell Optiplexes all over the place cheap and stick a large drive inside/outside of it and use it for a couple of years.

A big old server is just going to drain your wallet on both power and parts with equal or worse performance and a lot more complexity for what 99% of home users will use it for.

It sounds like your main goal is probably a media server and an Optiplex will give you an i5 or i7 with QuickSync which works excellent for processing video. RAID isnt really necessary here because you can just download more Linux ISOs if these one are lost, though it can be great later if you buy a bunch more drives and expand into other areas where data is less replaceable.

Can’t say on access behind CG-NAT, as I haven’t ever dealt with it, but Tailscale might work as a free third-party option though that’s just a guess.

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https://lemmy.world/u/cynar posted on Feb 18, 2026 16:56
In reply to: https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/63935079

The rule of thumb with servers is * Performance * Reliability * Power usage * Noise * Size

The trick is to remember you don’t actually need much performance. A home server isn’t generally a powerful machine. What matters is that it is always there.

A raspberry pi would actually make a wonderful server. It’s power efficient, small and quiet, with enough grunt to do most jobs. Unfortunately, it falls down on reliability. Arm servers seem more prone to issues than x64 servers. Pis also seems particularly crash prone. Crashing every 3-6 months isn’t an issue for most pi usages. When it’s running your smart home, it’s a pain in the arse.

I eventually settled on a intel NUC system. It’s a proper computer (no HDD on usb etc), with a very low power draw. It also seems particularly stable. Mine has done several years at this point, without a crash.

Bigger servers are only needed when you have too much demand for a low powered option, or need specialist capabilities 247. Very few home labbers will need one, in practice.

It’s also worth noting that you can slave a powerful, but power hungry system, to a smaller, efficient one. Only power it on when a highly demanding task requires sorting.

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https://thelemmy.club/u/Evil_Shrubbery posted on Feb 18, 2026 18:37
In reply to: https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/comment/24490695

Are 22TB Exos derives around 400+ monies (double the price from a year ago). 6TB are only half that? Idk even where to look for prices bcs stock is weird.

Yeah, these are dark times, evey gen things get worse instead of advancements ppl can use.

Still, keep in mind that those “nice” SAS drives are still slow & might have been in operation for 12 years.

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https://feddit.it/u/Scrollone posted on Feb 18, 2026 06:53
In reply to: https://lemmy.ml/comment/24021850

Speaking of Nextcloud, if you use for backing up photos, have you tried Immich?

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https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/u/orsetto posted on Feb 18, 2026 15:35
In reply to: https://lemmy.ml/comment/24021850

yup, desktop components are what i was originally looking for, but this is 200 euros for a lot of storage, which would be way more expensive if i were to buy it separately

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https://lemmy.ml/u/sundaylab posted on Feb 18, 2026 17:32
In reply to: https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/comment/24490380

True. Getting a TB of storage is not affordable nowadays. And we know why. F*©k AI.

But here in Poland you can still find some used Q920 with the same specifications.

If you are located in Europe they would most likely send it even to your country.

This one would be like the one I have.

https://allegro.pl/oferta/solidny-i-kompaktowy-komputer-micro-fujitsu-q920-i5-16gb-2000-ssd-w11-praca-17993236542

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https://lemy.lol/u/flork posted on Feb 18, 2026 16:29
In reply to: https://lemmy.world/comment/22016199

I see, the default docker installer for fail2ban gave me an error because “Port 80 was already in use” (by NGINX Manager).

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https://lemmy.world/u/redlemace posted on Feb 18, 2026 17:19
In reply to: https://lemy.lol/comment/24233189

Fail2ban does not listen on any port for it has no user interface. No interface at all actually. It’s just a process that monitors your logfiles and changes firewall rules and writes to syslog if you tell it to.

I run it on internet facing servers so I use a ‘regular’ install and never docker. I see no advantage for docker in this case, but one huge disadvantage: Docker changes a lot on the network side. It creates bridges, and picks IP’s all by itself. I hate that. (I know you can put in a lot of effort to manage it, but no thanks stay of my network config thank you)

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